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Shaun Tan

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“The American is said to become full-flavored, and in time a most all-round man, through the polish which Europe can impart.”
“Before we set our hearts too much upon anything, let us examine how happy they are, who already possess it.”
“I made a lot of mistakes, a lot of things I'm not proud of. But it's only for other people to learn from.”

Source : "No more practice for A.I.: Allen Iverson says goodbye to Philadelphia" by Bryan Armen Graham, www.theguardian.com. October 31, 2013.
“To be resigned when ills betide, Patient when favours are deni'd, And pleas'd with favours given,- Dear Chloe, this is wisdom's part; This is that incense of the heart Whose fragrance smells to heaven.”

Source : "The Fireside, stanza 11". "Bartlett's Familiar Quotations", 10th edition, 1919.
“I'm always shy in front of an audience, so I'm always at the back, in the shadows, just doing it. I don't like the front, the adulation.”
“Many of us spend our lives searching for success when it is usually so close that we can reach out and touch it.”
“Words may be false and full of art; Sighs are the natural language of the heart.”

Source : 'Psyche' (1675) act 3
“Although we all possess the seeds of great love and compassion, without the light of the enlightened one's wisdom and the waters of their compassion these seeds would never spout.”

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